Thanks for the set of pictures Rudeshadow. I’m glad HORI decided to include a non slip bottom with the Kai. The stick looks awesome!
Yeah I find them quite convenient with a neutrik.
HRAPV Silent is coming… pretty much HRAPV revision but with HRAPV4 Silent parts.
I’ve put maybe an hour of playtime into it. It feels okay, nothing special. Then again I’m partially biased to a stick with an 8 gate so the square thing kinda feels weird again.
I called it and fucking damn it, already ordered the Kuro VLX. Super troll is if they announce Silent VLX. Holy shit, HORI WHY?
edit:whoops, image quoted sorry about that
I’m sure they won’t announce a Silent VLX, they normally just copy their 3 Taito Vewlix arcade cabs
Thanks for the alert guys. I cancelled my Madcatz TE2 pre-order so I can get the HRAPV Silent instead.
That $55 shipping kills it for me.
To be fair The VLX over 12.13 pounds or approx 5.5 Kilograms and measures W 22.44 in x L 10.24 in x H 5.51 in or approx W 56.99 cm x L 26 cm x H 13.99 cm
That is a big item to ship. I spend that much on shipping the Hrap V4 from Japan to the US when it was first new (just to void the warranty with mods).
The Regular Hori Hrap V4, V4 Kai, V4 Silent is about 8 pounds (you do the math for metric).
I am assuming you are not located in the US? Because the $55 sounds like overseas shipping cost to me.
$55 is about the usual budget someone has just to swap out the buttons and joystick to something that person likes/prefers.
Thanks for taking photos and posting. Would you mind if I were to use some of your photos resized in the original post?
Added to list. Thanks.
Please edit your post to remove the quoted image. Rule is in play for the majority of the important threads here on SRK TT that tend to be image heavy. No reason we should have page extention here for no reason too. Thanks.
You mean octagonal gate. The Square gate is also 8 way. People often confuse the term 8 way and 4 way for Octo and Square gate, but both sticks are 8 way.
To all: Thanks for the support I’ve received so far and for the help I’ve received so far. Much appreciated all.
Yeah I was talking about importing the Real Pro V Silent Hayabusa from PlayAsia (Hong Kong?). I’m in the US. The shipping is $55, which brings the stick up to $212.
@poisonmar http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=GAME-0013820&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_keywords%3Dhayabusa%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1
$132 USD and around $50 shipping.
Not at all, you can use them as you’d like. It’s the least I can contribute to this!
Well you can pay the $55 shipping or hope that it come over here in a few months (if ever).
When I got the first Hori Hrap V4, there no word of a US release. You can jump on the stick now or roll the dice.
There also this
Still Arcade sticks has a very, very high cost of entry, and going for the cheaper sticks never pans out as you end up spending the money on parts any ways.
My opinions aside, if you consider the HRAP v4 Kai retailed at $150 US (it’s selling at my local Fry’s Electronics), the Silent HRAP.V Hayabusa going for $200 makes sense due to the increased costs of an optical joystick PCB and silencer pads in the buttons.
My exact problem too. I only play on stick and I can’t find any PS4 sticks. Sucks so bad.
Really?
There’s links to PS4 sticks all over
Seems like the Hori sticks are available huh? Not really a fan of the way they look, but I guess it is an option.
I would prefer the MadCatz stick, but that doesn’t come out until June for some reason. Why the long wait I wonder?
Thanks for the links.
Uh, you can get Madcatz sticks from Akishop. The Japanese yen was intentionally inflated recently with the intent to export more products and make more money than the sales made if they kept their currency as high as it was at the time. So importing these sticks from Japan isn’t that bad right now.
The problem is that even though 1 USD is currently worth 121.39 Yen, stupid paypal’s exchange rate is only 118 yen per 1 USD. They claim that it is current rate but that’s not true, and I have read from many sources that this is what they do for international sales.